CaseSphere1956
Madera, CA, USA
A witness in Madera, California reported a half-spherical object with portholes along its side, observed in daylight for about two minutes in June 1956.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (152 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1956-06-24
- Where
- Madera, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 36.961, -120.061 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-madera-ca-1956-f3acec
In context
- Madera, CA shows up 30 times across the archive.
- 7 reports came from California in 1956.
- In the 1950s, 5.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
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